Note 226 — SERMON XI. PROPHETIC CHARACTERS OF ANTICHRIST. Luke xii. 56.

“Whatsoever time of Messiah’s appearing Almighty God pointed out by Daniel’s LXX Weeks, yet I believe not that any Jew before the event, could infallibly design the time without some latitude; because they could not know infallibly where to pitch the head of their accounts, until the event discovered it: yet in some latitude they might.” Mede, Works, p. 757.

And so in other instances. “I do not believe that the Jews themselves could certainly tell from which of their three captivities to begin that reckoning of LXX years, whose end should bring their return from Babylon, until the event assured them thereof.” Mede, Works, p. 662.